David Piper , Assistant Keeper at the National Portrait Gallery, talks about the significance of parasolology
(The recorded broadcast of May 26)

Herbert Downes (viola)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Haydn's Symphony No. 77.- July 9

Talk by D. J. Gordon
The speaker traces the history of the tegend that has grown up round the name and personality of Leonardo da Vinci. He examines the different forms this legend has taken from generation to generation and discusses their significance. D. J. Gordon , who is Professor of English in the University of Reading, has for many years been a student of the literature and thought of the Italian Renaissance.

BBC Singers: Margaret Godley, Margaret Rees, Maude Baker, Margaret Rolfe, Bradshaw MacMillan, Emlyn Bebb, Stanley Riley, Denis Weatherley
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Richard Dering

Ardenti miei sospiri; Ardor felic'e caro; In questo muto: Quern vidistis pastores?
Hence vain affections; Cease thy affections; When fond desires
Mirando la mia Dea; Lagrime; Rosa d'amor

First of a series of madrigal programmes. This is the first of a series of programmes of madrigals, motets, canzonets, and balletts by English, French, and Italian composers.

Richard Dering, the composer represented tonight, was born in England towards the end of the sixteenth century but spent much of his life abroad. He studied in Italy, and after working in London for a time became organist to the convent of English nuns in Brussels. In 1625, five years before his death, he returned to London as one of the musicians of Charles I. (H.R.)

by Bernard Shaw
Introduced by St. John Ervine
The play produced by Esme Percy
Cast in order of Bpeaking:
During the interval (9.20-9.30 app.):
Mozart
String Quartet in C (K.A.211) played by the Dessauer Quartet on gramophone records

Gareth Morris (flute)
Denis Matthews and Howard Ferguson (piano duet)
The Carter String Trio:
Mary Carter (violin) Anatole Mines (viola) Antonia Butler (cello)
Arnold Cooke 's String Trio was written two years ago and is dedicated to the Carter String Trio, who performed it for the first time in London last January.
The suite for unaccompanied flute by Egon Wellesz was written in 1937. John Joubert , who was born in Cape
Town in 1927, was awarded a Performing Right Society Scholarship in 1946, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under Theodore Holland and Howard Ferguson ; he is at present a lecturer in music at University College, Hull. His Symphonic Study in B minor was broadcast in May. The Divertimento, written during 1950-51, is dedicated to Howard Ferguson ; it is in five movements.
D.C.

The prosprels of racial co-operation
The Dynamic of Government by Lord Hailey
P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E.

Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Im wunderschonen Monat Mai; Aus meinen Tranen; Die Rose, die Lilie; Wenn ich in deine Augen seh ': Ich will meine Seele tauchen; Im Rhein. im heiligen Strome; Ich grolle nicht: Und wtlssten's die Blumen; Das 1st ein Floten und' Geigen: Hor ich das Liedchen klingen; Ein Jungling liebt ein Madchen; Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen; Ich hab' im Traum geweinet; Allnachtlich im Traume seh' ich dich; Aus alten Marchen; Die alten, bosen Lieder sung by Bruce Boyce (baritone) with Clifton Helliwell (piano)